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adminOctober 8, 2018Comments Off on A Warm Welcome for New International Faculty

Each year, the International Center holds a “welcome picnic” for current and new international faculty and their family members. This year’s picnic took place on Sunday, September 30, at the Main Campus festival area.

adminOctober 8, 2018Comments Off on Ankara HiltonSA Hotel General Manager Signs Agreement With THM Department, Speaks to Students

On September 27, Marc Schumacher, the general manager of the Ankara HiltonSA Hotel, visited the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management. During the visit, Mr. Schumacher and Asst. Prof. Eda Gürel, acting chair of

BY NAUSHERWAN AZIZ (MAN/IV) Name: Sarah Atif Department: IR/IV Country of Origin: Pakistan What do you like best about Turkey? How geographically diverse the country is. Are there any similarities between Turkey and your

adminOctober 8, 2018Comments Off on Ceremony Marks New Agreement Between THM and Sabre Türkiye

On September 25, a signing ceremony for a cooperation agreement between the Bilkent University Department of Tourism and Hotel Management and Sabre Türkiye took place in İstanbul. The agreement initiates a collaborative venture on

Last Friday, September 28, Prof. Markus Appel from the University of Würzburg in Germany was the guest of the Department of Communication and Design and the Goethe Institute in Ankara. In the morning, Prof.

adminOctober 8, 2018Comments Off on Alzheimer’s: The Quest to Save a Neuron (Part II)

Alzheimer’s is a disease in which neurons, the cells in our brains, are destroyed. This happens, as neuroscientist and writer Lisa Genova has put it, through “molecular murder or cellular suicide.” In the previous

adminOctober 8, 2018Comments Off on This Week at Bilkent Cinematics: Hair

Bilkent Cinematics will be screening Miloš Forman’s 1979 antiwar musical film ‘“Hair” on Wednesday, October 10. Based on the 1968 Broadway musical “Hair: An American Tribal Love–Rock Musical,” the film follows the lives of